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Tesla said Wednesday that they have been able to recover enough data to confirm that autopilot was not engaged when a Bay Area driver veered off a road in a Model S, plunged into an East Bay pond and died.

A 34-year-old man behind the wheel of a Tesla Model S died after plunging into a pond along a rural road between San Ramon and Castro Valley, authorities said Monday morning.

A one-alarm fire broke out early Monday morning at the same condominium complex in Martinez where a two-alarm blaze broke out Sunday morning, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials.

Firefighters fully contained a three-alarm blaze Sunday morning at a commercial building in San Leandro, according to Alameda County fire officials.

Firefighters put out a two-alarm fire that broke out at a housing complex early Sunday morning in Martinez, according to Contra Costa County Fire Protection District officials.

Fire officials in Contra Costa County are asking for the public’s help to find out who started five suspicious vegetation fires Sunday in Antioch, a fire spokeswoman said Monday.

Doctors were forced to talk a Florida woman through delivering her baby at home while Hurricane Irma’s outer bands lashed Miami. The City of Miami said on its Twitter account early Sunday that firefighters couldn’t respond in time to the woman in the Little Haiti neighborhood. So doctors from Jackson Health System talked her through the birth of the baby...

Alameda County and Oakland firefighters are still extinguishing hot spots at a construction project on the Emeryville-Oakland border that was hit by a five-alarm fire on Saturday morning, a fire spokeswoman said Monday.

Firefighters brought a one-alarm fire at a Cupertino hotel near Interstate Highway 280 under control Friday morning.

A woman crashed her car into an optometry building in Castro Valley Friday morning and was taken to the hospital, an Alameda County fire spokeswoman said.

A gas leak reported Monday morning in San Francisco’s Lake Street neighborhood has prompted evacuations of residents on one block, a fire department spokeswoman said.

Two children were taken to a hospital and several others injured when a tree branch fell on an inflatable bounce house at a party in Garland.

Two pedestrians were hit and injured by a van and bus in separate accidents within a 24-hour span, police said.

Three houses are burning in San Francisco’s Excelsior neighborhood Tuesday evening, a fire spokeswoman said.

A sausage factory that operated for decades in San Francisco’s Bayview District sustained significant structural damage in a two-alarm fire Wednesday afternoon, fire officials said.

One person has died and another has been rescued after becoming stranded on the rocks near Lands End in San Francisco this afternoon, a fire spokeswoman said.

A gas leak at a Taco Bell restaurant in Novato sent three people to a hospital Tuesday morning, a Novato Fire Protection District spokeswoman said.

Lagging ambulance response times in San Francisco led Supervisor London Breed on Tuesday to introduce a request for a ballot measure requiring the fire department to maintain speedy response times for emergency medical services.

A person was found dead and burnt beyond recognition in a destroyed outbuilding on Caltrain property in San Francisco’s Visitacion Valley Thursday morning, police and fire officials said.

A two-alarm electrical fire gutted a San Leandro hair salon and sent a firefighter to the hospital Sunday morning, a fire spokeswoman said.